It’s a challenging time to be in the building business. With labor costs up and competition as stiff as ever, every efficiency you gain in terms of time is invaluable. Strides in areas such as enhanced employee scheduling and better materials calculation make a big difference.…

At the end of the day, even if your business has the latest and greatest , there’s no greater resource than your employees. No matter how many collaboration tools you have, it’s ultimately your employees who will determine whether your company fails or thrives.…

If there is technology available to more accurately track the hours of a mobile workforce and reduce the time spent calculating payroll, most businesses would definitely want to take advantage of it. That said, employers also want to ensure that the changes being introduced won’t inconvenience or offend their workers.…

Keeping track of employee hours and wages is one of the main challenges of mobile workforce management. It's particularly difficult if you’re running a business that depends on hundreds (or even thousands) of mobile workers at multiple job sites to keep an accurate record of how much time each employee is working.…

Getting employees to work more effectively together is one of the guiding tenets of successful project management and workforce management. In recent years, a plethora of collaboration tools have taken the workplace by storm. Whether they’re being used at the same job site or miles away from each other, these technologies offer workers convenient, user-friendly ways of communicating and sharing work with each other.…

Nostalgic AIM users shed a collective tear as news that the pioneering chat app will close its windows forever at the end of this year. Pushed to the sidelines by the likes of Facebook and Google Hangouts, AOL can no longer compete. As tech is constantly evolving, business leaders continue to seek out the best chat apps for employees at work.…

While there are plenty of innovative workforce tools – including state-of-the-art workforce management software – that can help you better run a company, there's no technological substitute for a strong leader. For a lucky few, leadership seems to come naturally, while some of us have absolutely no business being put in charge of other people. Others likely fall somewhere in between, possessing some leadership traits and lacking others. The good news for these people is that with hard work, leadership skills can be learned.…

It’s generally much easier to hire than fire. Unfortunately, it’s hard to span a career in workforce management or project management without having to let an employee go at some point. The decision to terminate, the process of communicating that news to the employee and the way in which you share the situation with the rest of your team are some of the toughest scenarios you’ll experience as a manager.…